It really does draw a picture of what language looks like." Sponsor Message I asked her to show me, and for an example she used the first sentence she recalls diagramming: "The dog barked." ...

Developers usually do their diagramming in the design phase. After code is written, it’s unlikely that any diagramming will ever take place, even though it could be useful for code maintenance.

The literal “diagram” comes from the Latin diagramma (design, layout), and this from ... an evolution that can be found in many languages, such as Modern Greek. This new word comes from ...

"It's a fairly simple idea," says Kitty Burns Florey, the author of Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences. "I like to call it a picture of language.

Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor. When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence ...